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Two more government medical colleges are in the pipeline so that in the future the vacancies can be filled up, the officer said in one of his affidavits. Three private medical colleges are also functioning in the state. CUTTACK: Large number of vacancies in the posts of doctors in different state-run hospitals and three medical colleges has affected the healthcare delivery system in the state.As many as 2,173 posts of assistant surgeons and 195 specialists are lying vacant in the district headquarters hospitals. Similarly, 38 posts of professors, 77 posts of associate professors and 204 post of assistant professors are vacant in the three medical colleges and dental college.The state government has asked the Odisha Public Service Commission to recruit 1,950 medical officers. The state government is also trying to fill up vacant posts of specialists at district headquarters hospitals through promotion.The facts became evident from affidavits filed in the Orissa high court recently in response to a PIL seeking judicial intervention to protect the public healthcare system from private operators..